FReeper Canteen ~ Happy Thanksgiving & Happy Hanukkah ~ 28 November 2013

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Happy Thanksgiving 2013!! ~

GOD BLESS AND WATCH OVER THEM, WHEREVER THEY SERVE

Canteen Mission Statement

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies' military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.

[eyedigress]

I am working and out of town. The mighty Cisco.

At least I was upgraded to an executive suite at Doubletree.

I have to take a pass on this Thanksgiving Day but I hope to be with family at Christmas.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...any lessons today? Everybody cooking or traveling?

What are you and Lynn-Dah doing for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah?

[pax_et_bonum]

Happy Thanksgiving, Kathy and all!

Thank you to all who are serving or who have served in our military.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy first day of Chanukah, Mesta.
What a beautiful picture. Thank you, and a Happy Thanksgiving as well.

I Have A Little Dreidel - click

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, Meg...beautiful. ((HUGS))

Are you visiting with your family? I hope the back is behaving.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, lysie. Are you hosting? Traveling?

[KGeorge]

A Very Happy & Blessed Thanksgiving to you, Kathy- & to everyone at FR. And a Very Happy & Blessed Thanksgivvukah to our Jewish FRiends.
We have so much to be grateful for!

[Kathy in Alaska]

70,000 years! WOW! I don’t think I’ll be here either.

[Kathy in Alaska]

My goodness...getting home was for sure a bit of a chore.

Glad you got your B-12 shot and praying you continue to get better.

So happy for you all that John-Man gets to spend the Thanksgiving weekend home with family.

Will he be practicing his BBQ skills?

[luvie]

...to the Canteen
and our troops!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh my goodness, Fiji....those ingredients will be making wonderfully delicious mashed sweet potatoes.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today's sustenance for body and soul.

Happy Thanksgiving to The Mayor family.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...((HUGS)), and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

Are you traveling? Will you all be together?

[MEG33]

Thank you, Kathy
Company’s comin’!
My daughter and SIL and one of their bachelor best friends that I know are coming..I baked a cake..Daughter is doing dinner..Back is complaining but I just washed 2 loads of kitty covers..LOL.. All is almost ready for company but me..The house looks fine..I need a makeover.
;o)
Thanksgiving Blessings to you and yours

[Liberty Valance]

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Hannukah!

The Dreidel Song - Texas style

[PROCON]

Hi Ma, I'm up in Washington at my sister's and all of us are celebrating Thanksgiving together.

How about you?

[Kathy in Alaska]

No traveling for me for a while...I need to be here for my Mom.

This is what we have had for several years,
but now the last 5 stairs down are creating a major problem for her.

This is what we've had now since 11/21...4 stairs down.

We will see how she handles the one last stair at the bottom.

[luvie]

LOL! Crazy! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Everybody at your house....lots of running. d:o)

What’s on the menu this Thanksgiving?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mac, for the Missing Man Setting as we remember those who have given their all that we may gather safe and secure.